The Catholic church down the street from me. I really like the way the light hits the steeple in the afternoons. This picture needs a bit of cropping, but I like it all the same.
Same shot, but pulled out more. I unintentionally got an interesting foreground, when I was trying to get the stuff in the background.
A milkweed pod.
The bees in the next door neighbour's flowers. I really like the way this picture turned out.
A close up of one of the flowers. Yay, macrofocus! :)
An open milkweed pod.
I think this is a thistle head.
I thought that the way the petals are still folded over each other looked neat.
So a successful creative endeavour.
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Cool. :) I love the bee pic. The third to last one doesn't work for me though. :(
Yeah, the light was really going and I think I was too close with the macro on.
I'm going to try again with better light tomorrow.
LOL! No, I mean the pic doesn't work. I can't see it. :D
Oh! *blushes* That's weird. I can see it on either computer. Well, it's up on paws, too, along with some others. I could really use your input, though. I'm trying to improve my skills.
Ok, well here's some technical input:
For the macros, it's amazing they came out so well because it looks like you had very little light. Ideally, you'd want the aperture fairly wide (i.e. the number should be low), and the speed should be as high as possible.
In your pics, your speeds are below 1/125 of a second... Anything below 1/60 might have a little bit of blur, but if you don't have enough light, there's not much you can do about it.
For the church pics, and basically any sort of scenery, you'd want the aperture tiny (i.e. big number, preferably above 8), and your speed should just be adjusted in consequence. On your digicam, do you have the Av setting? If you do, that's the one you'd use. You'd put the aperture as high (small) as possible, but again, don't go longer than 1/60 for your speed. Even 1/60 is shakey for some people.
Does that help any? If you want to know what I'm talking about, check out the "exif data" under your pics in photobucket.
Yes, that helps quite a bit. Thanks!
Last night I was depending on the camera but I want to get to the point where I can use the manual settings instead. I couldn't remember which way around the aperture and speed settings go for what light conditions.
I'm still using my little Canon Powershot A520. For what it is, it's a pretty reliable little digicam. And it does have the manual settings to play with, too, so I figure I'll stick with it until I get good enough that it's too limited for what I want to do. It's just too bad it's only 4 megapixels.
Yeah, I used my A510 for a long time before I got my rebel. We got that one because of the features. It's a 3.2 megapixel one, but it had more junk than most of the bigger, more expensive ones. :)
I have a Cybershot, too, but I don't like it much at all.
When it comes time to upgrade I'm definitely going to check Canon first. And then we'll see who wins the war for my little camera! The kid, my Mom and my niece all want it.
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